Psalms 69:4
More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbed, how am I then to restore?
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In Context
3I am weary of crying, my throat is parched, my eyes are wasted with waiting for God.
5O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you.
Cross References
Psalms 7:3Lord, my God, if my life has been such if my hands have been stained with guilt,
Psalms 35:19Suffer not those to rejoice over me who are falsely my foes, suffer not those who without cause abhor me to wink with the eye.
Psalms 40:12For evils that cannot be numbered have compassed me round. My transgressions have followed me up – I can bear it no more. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has forsaken me.
Psalms 109:3they beset me with words of hatred, and fight without cause against me.
John 15:25And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law – ‘They hated me without cause.’
1 Peter 2:22He ‘never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.’
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:2-13
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins… Read the whole commentary →